I am a jelly doughnut

So while AXIS has supported IPv6 on their network cameras since, forever ago, I only ever saw it configured via router advertisements. So I emailed them about this, and got the following reply:

"Thank you for contacting Axis Communications. The default setting on the camera for IPv6 is auto; however you can change the IPv6 address inside the Plain Config.

Once you login to the camera, select Setup > System Options > Advanced > Plain Config and select Network."

Lo and behold, it was there on the 210 at work, and this is awesome. No more running a camera behind a linux box with radvd giving it an IP!

It is about 3 years to date since I first started working in the second Fremont facility at work. Originally it was just Sam and I waiting here for 8hrs/day to accept a customer shipment because they wanted to move in earlier than the facility was ready for. We'd read books, futz with things or answer tickets while sitting at a computer on a workbench in the colo suite reserved for company equipment. We did TK Noodle for most of our lunches, and in at least 1-2 cases, 4 days a week. The building wasn't 24/7 when we started letting customers in either. We were on-call for customer weekend installation reservations made during the week. Then we finally got a desk in the lobby and sat a support person there 24/7. The beginning of the facility was new and exciting, especially to basically be handed a blank slate and have some control over how stuff got done.

It was a lot of work, making sure every customer was handled and installed correctly. It got to the point where I didn't even see my desk for more than 30-45mins during a shift. This led to my ticket/work-order numbers being really high, but no phone calls which wasn't good when you are just tech support. About 1.5 years into it, I got bumped up to Network Engineering, and started handing the reigns over to new support people that would hopefully keep up the quality of work. Sadly each one I got trained and working really well, either left for another job or changed shifts to be a rockstar elsewhere.

Slowly the new crew has been building up at FMT2, but not to the quality that I'm 100% satisfied with. Cable runs are sloppy, if labeled. I can run, terminate, verify a working copper cross-connect in 6 minutes. It was taking some staff upwards of 30-75minutes. Really, 75 minutes, all because they couldn't crimp correctly so they would trim off the old crimp, and eventually made the cable too short and had to do it all over again. I still run the fiber runs because when I've asked some to do one, I'd observe some really nasty tugging or near knots.

The new generation of tech support in the company seems to think that the slightest amount of work needs to suddenly become contract-work. "Oh, they need 3 machines racked which involves putting together 3 rail-kits, we need to charge $/hr to accomplish this!" I hate that, a lot, because it isn't as difficult as they all make it out to be and usually only takes 30mins and a strong back or second pair of hands. The level of general technical knowledge doesn't make me happy either. Some really strive to learn and improve, which they do. The rest are just lazy, or have an air of superiority and need to be given reality checks, especially when they are caught talking completely out of their ass.

The expansion of the facility is interesting to watch and take part in. I'm curious to see lots plans put into motion, as well as solving some of the problems that I foresee. IPv6 has been really simple to pick up and run with, and I love working on the various aspects of it at work. I actually really enjoy trying to help people genuinely learn more about it, even if they aren't customers/users (shout out to #ipv6 on freenode)

However Sam is now gone, which for me makes the workplace poorer. However he left for a new great experience, and we still try and catch lunch once a week if we both aren't busy. I'm mentoring someone that can really absorb like a sponge, and work with it. It's odd being on the mentoring side of tech again, and it feels good.

Got my Dev G1 today. Loaded it with useless crap then deleted half of what I installed.

For an ear taco, its certainly one of the better designed ones out there. Phone quality seemed usual, and adding the AT&T stuff to it for EDGE service worked mint. Charges really fast, however the charge doesn't last that long when you are playing around with it constantly. IMAP+SSL for work was simple, painless and working very quickly. Grabbing some songs for custom Contacts ringtones. Will keep the MGS "CODEC" for default ring as usual.

Dev kit didn't come with a fabric pouch, so am using an Oakley micro-fiber glasses baggie until I find something more suitable. It also came with a free 1GB microSD which I just replaced with my RAZR2's 2GB.

Migrating contacts was simple, the phone is just really easy to use.

http://ipv6.he.net/certification is officially live.

The big thing so far is explaining the IPv6 glue factor. That the TLD server has to provide an actual answer when queried for the AAAA record of your nameserver. If it doesn't, you don't have glue, you have um...paste, delicious paste.

We have someone redesigning the cert badges, and until then its my little blue box that I made with some vector graphic app under linux. The new badges will be flash! Hopefully Flash 10, since that is supposed to have IPv6 support. I'm not sure what that means since I never write flash apps, but guessing that it can be used to access stuff over IPv6.

Where was the certification project born from? It was my hair-brained scheme this last late spring when the owner said as part of the tunnelbroker.net revamp project, "We need more sites linking to the broker." That night I wrote out a silly HTML page that took in a domain, ran it against a perl script that formatted dig output, and put it into delicious HTML table with borders! I figured we could hand out badges in HTML tags that linked back to the site.

Here are some of my original ideas I played with for the badges:
http://broquea.corp.he.net/seal.gif
http://broquea.corp.he.net/seal(2).gif
http://broquea.corp.he.net/seal(3).gif

I think one of them made it into the flash ones and is animated.

Now it has transformed into this giant beast of a site, mostly coded by liferun who is totally awesome, and I will always give credit to for the brunt of the work. I got out of this, more chances to learn coding different things, and it was fun to see an idea from 3am steamroll into something a lot more robust than I could churn out.

name: AT&T
apn: wap.cingular
proxy: blank
port: blank
username: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
password: CINGULAR1
server: blank
mmsc: http://mmsc.cingular.com
mms proxy: wireless.cingular.com
mms port: 80
mcc:310
mnc:410
apn type: blank

I'm starting a new food website to track what we're having for dinner and the breakdown in cost per person. As always, this website is dual-stack, meaning available over IPv4 and IPv6.

http://www.onion-cafe.com/

I've got the core display chunk finished (the menu itself), and need to figure out the site's actual layout and overall look. I'll also set up a Pantry area for listing the usual items I keep in stock and their costs (at last purchase). As well as figure out a decent recipe and photo area.

Took an AXIS 210 that we have at work, then updated it's firmware to v4.40 which now includes IPv6 support! yay!

The camera is only available over IPv6 at: http://ipv6cam.deus-exmachina.net/view/index.shtml

The network setup is:
- tunnel from tserv to a linux box.
- linux box has a direct connection to camera using crossover cable and secondary NIC (eth1)
- linux box uses routed /64 allocation for tunnel and advertises it using RADVD over eth1 to the camera

I haven't posted in forever (ok, March) so here is an update:

1) My friend Lou got married on 8-8-08, and it was a really fun time. Myself and our friend Steve set up the video presentation Lou wanted, and everything seemed to go really well. He is on his honeymoon now, and I wish him and Courtney the best!

2) RJ bought a VW Beetle, and it is a very cool little car. I hope he really enjoys it :)

3) At work, the tunnel broker continues to expand, and we'll have 3 new POPs up in the next month or two.

4) At home, we're trying to go back to cooking more at home and less eating out. This now requires effort on RJ & Tori to not burn the cereal when adding milk (just kidding Tori).

In other work news, an old customer of ours is being slammed by his customers, which doesn't look very pretty. Post #38....just...wtf. Probably not 100% the death knell of them, but seems pretty close.

Google finally makes it's IPv6 debut: http://ipv6.google.com

Looks like it is only the search engine. Don't see any other features of Google available over IPv6 like News, Mail, etc. At least it is a start!

Our IPv6 Forums are now live!

Anonymous can read, must have a broker account to post.
Accounts are free, just need a valid working email address for us to mail passwords to.

Been looking for some portable love for a gaming and multimedia experience. My current notebook is a Dell c640 which has been annoying lately with some mouse and graphics glitches, as well as I had to swap out the stock drive for a new one. It runs FC8 and I primarily use it for work related testing, because it has a sexy serial port so I don't have to go buy a USB dongle. Was considering a Macbook Pro, but I've never been into or a part of the Mac culture. They are nice, but always expensive.

The Macbook Pro I'd use for gaming is something like $3000-4500, and does look really snazzy, but it can be $4000!!!!!

The Dell I looked at ran around $3080 shipped with nice features.

The Alienware I priced out was $2399, again really nice.

Sony was a failure, as their listed systems are either pre-order, or when you go to build one, all the CPUs are on backorder, even the stock one.

So I figured I'd try HP. Ok wtf, I can get a 20" 1080p with all the same/similar specs as the other machines, $2700 shipped. But this "notebook" reminds of actual LAPTOPS. You know, the old 286 around 20-30lbs with the 5" monochrome screen. This thing is a giant at 15lbs and definitely a desktop replacement, but is by no means a "notebook".

So I ordered one :D~

I swear if it weren't for a decent CMS like Drupal, I'd still be writing nested tables for my sites.

I've got my colo machine running centOS 5.1 with the latest OpenVZ software. I have 3 VEs created so far:

1) FC8 + Apache 2.2.6 running http://www.deus-exmachina.net/drupal (and soon all my mail/etc)
2) Ubuntu 7.10 + BIND9 for ns3.deus-exmachina.net...which will actually become ns1 once I'm done migrating
3) And a TrixBox 2.x PBX for videophones & applications my family and friends can use (SIP only)

Everything is available over IPv4/IPv6 (mmmmmm native IPv6). If you want to try IPv6, HE's tunnelbroker.net (liferun and myself run the project) is free and fairly simple to set up if your ISP cannot provider you native IPv6 connectivity.

Nothing much on the main site yet. I will also need to do a total overhaul of geek-meat.com and probably make it have it's own VE. The system's resources are barely in use handling 3 virtual servers so far. System specs are:

Silicon Mechanics Rackform nServ A107
Opteron 1218 HE (2.6GHz, Dual Core, Skt AM2, 1MB/Core L2 Cache
4GB (4x1GB) DDR2-800 Unbuffered ECC - Interleaved
Dual-port 10/100/1000 Mbps NIC (Broadcom 5704C) - Integrated (ZOMG VLAN support)
2x500GB SATA II/300 Western Digital (and one is failing SMARTD self-testing so need to RMA, shouldn't have bought the drives at Fry's)

Today's dinner will be:

1) a beef rib roast (3lbs of glorious meat)
2) stuffing on the side even though there isn't a bird (people just love stuffing!)
3) salad
4) freshly baked cornbread muffins

New Year's Eve. we will have a few people over, and I'm still considering either bird or beast. For bird I'm leaning towards another large turkey breast roasted (since I know how to keep it juicy). For beast I am considering a boneless leg of lamb roast. Either yet another stuffing or risotto, depending on the protein I choose. Veggies I might ask a guest to tackle.

I baked a dozen cornbread muffins from scratch (fuck "mix") at noon.

The house smells delicious.

Almost done with my migration of services running at home to my new personal colo. I've got working IPv4/6 on my sexy new Silicon Mechanics machine, running CentOS 5.1 and OpenVZ. I've got 3 VE's configured:

Fedora Core 8 for WWW/MAIL

Ubuntu 7.10 for DNS

CentOS 4 for a personal TrixBox PBX (Private SIP extensions for my video phones, Vizuo CIP-5500, but man CIP-8000 look sexy)

All VEs have native IPv4/6 connectivity and rDNS should delegate in a few hours for v4 and whenever liferun updates the v6 nameservers at work to delegate to my nameservers.

I've left the colo on 100mbit uplink because after a week, I'm certain I won't be having any overage issues. RJ handed his machine over to me to get installed, which it is.

Work is getting rid of our unused Cisco gear, bulk package.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/sys/509480000.html

Colo contract signed and check handed over. My switch (cisco 3548) should be arriving Friday. My new server from Silicon Mchanics should arrive then as well, so I'll probably stay late at work that night and go live with equipment in the cabinet.

I asked for a /64 and then /29+/28 since I figure someone is going to want their own netblock or something, and the rest can use an IP out of the /28, or ask for a netblock.

liferun pointed me at http://openvz.org/ so I might play with that on the new machine.

Last on the list is to get a phone number and email addr. for those that wanted in, and create the ACC/AV/RH access list entires for them. Still trying to hunt down that elusive KVM over IP solution, and don't think it will happen for the costs of those damned devices.

Ok, got enough people interested in colo that I'm signing paperwork and cutting a check on Monday. Sadly, I think I'll ask if I can run my own cable run and route my own address space teehee

Hope they let me :/

Anyways I think the cabinet will be allocated and ready by Friday when my Cisco 3548 arrives. Hopefully my server chassis arrives as well so I can grab some drives, install an OS and rack it.

Still room for anyone interested.

Woo!

Golden Compass is out today. I hope they haven't murdered the book. The latest teasers make it seem like a Daniel Craig & Nicole Kidman movie, but while they are characters, it certainly isn't mainly about them. I hope that if they pull this off as a good movie, the remaining books from His Dark Materials will also be movified and hopefully enjoyable.

The videogame for this, on the other hand, looks like a bucket of diseased prolapsed horse sphincters.

And kudos to Cameo/Kiad for mentioning this series of books to me years ago, I really enjoyed reading them :)